b/c im running it with an open case I don't think its a heat issue anymore. I can run it in safe mode ok, i ran spybot and really didn't get anything, so i don't think its a virus. also stopped a lot of auto run programs from running during startup.

reset bios on the motherboard and it didn't make any changes
bios reads the temp as find during startup (30c)
bios reads all of the RAM and doesn't report a problem

this next week im going to see if i can run all of its hardware components on a different CPU and motherboard. Hoping to isolate it too a bad motherboard or CPU. Im also going to take out the HDD's (there is 2) and run them as slave drives so i can virus scan them. ( i couldn't get them out before, didn't have the room to take the whole thing apart.) so mabe through that i can install those programs on it then.